Zurobara

[2] For a long time, it was assumed that Zurobara (also found under the corrupted and inaccurate form Zambara)[3] was located on the site of the Timișoara Fortress, but this was refuted by modern historians.[13] Zurobara is mentioned in Ptolemy's Geographia (c. 150 AD) in the form Ζουρόβαρα as an important town in western Dacia, at latitude 45° 40' N and longitude 45° 40' E[14][15] (note that he used a different meridian and some of his calculations were off).Unlike many other Dacian towns mentioned by Ptolemy, Zurobara is missing from Tabula Peutingeriana (1st–4th centuries AD), an itinerarium showing the cursus publicus, the road network in the Roman Empire.[16] The Danish philologist and historian Gudmund Schütte believed that the town with similar name Ziridava, also mentioned by Ptolemy and also missing from Tabula Peutingeriana, was the same with Zurobara.[17] This idea is deemed erroneous alongside many other assumed duplications of names by the Romanian historian and archeologist Vasile Pârvan in his work Getica.
Dacia's map from a medieval book made after Ptolemy's Geographia (ca. 150 AD). Zurobara is on the northwest.
Dacia on Tabula Peutingeriana
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